Jkaczano Posted May 10, 2023 Report Share Posted May 10, 2023 Hi. Currently on Odyssey docked in Haifa. They are immediately setting sail and we’re heading to Santorini and Chania instead. Any suggestions for tours? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaryS Posted May 10, 2023 Report Share Posted May 10, 2023 We were on Odyssey in September and went to Santorini and Chania. We have never been to either so decided to do Royal excursions. Santorini: We did an excursion with Royal "Village of Oia On Your Own". It was okay. We were tendered to the port (not the one that has the cable car) and then took the tour bus to Oia where our guide gave highlights and then we had about 90 minutes on our own to explore Oia. Met up with the group and then took the tour bus to Fira again guide gave highlights of the town gave us our cable car tickets and the tour was over. We wandered Fira did a little shopping and eating. Chania: we did another Royal excursion (last minute choice most were already sold out) to a monastery then went to a small beach town (Rethimno) to wander around. It was nice. Jkaczano 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaryS Posted May 10, 2023 Report Share Posted May 10, 2023 These were the excursions available for Chania back in September. It will give you some ideas of what to do. Chania Crete Excursions.pdf Jkaczano 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CanHardlyWait Posted May 10, 2023 Report Share Posted May 10, 2023 Read the reports on CC. At least you will be safe. Can't fault Royal (and that's a first for me lol) for playing it safe. Good luck. Safe journey. Jkaczano 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FionaMG Posted May 10, 2023 Report Share Posted May 10, 2023 We were also on Odyssey, but in May last year, and called at both Santorini and Chania. We did Royal excursions in both ports. In Santorini, we did Island of Santorini and Village of Oia and in Chania we did Kournas, Monastery and Rethymnon (sounds like it might be the same one @MaryS did). We enjoyed both. (We did them in Spanish but as far as I know, they're essentially the same as the English ones.) Details of both on my recap blog here: Jkaczano and MaryS 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDaley Posted May 10, 2023 Report Share Posted May 10, 2023 I spent some time in Crete last summer and wrote about three excursions I took from Chania in this excursions review! We also rented a car every easily in Chania from cretebee.com and they will deliver and drop it off for you wherever you want. We drove from Chania to Elafonissi, the pink sand beach. It was amazing and only took about 1.5 hours. Jkaczano 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mturk Posted May 11, 2023 Report Share Posted May 11, 2023 I'm probably late with this but last September we did the "Best of Santorini" tour. It was a great experience as part of our excursion was visiting the Akrotiri archeological site and our guide was an actual archeologist who helped work on various aspects of the site. Very informative! Of course we visited the famous part where we took pictures, went to a winery that overlooked the sea with more spectacular views and then went to an authentic Greek restaurant for lunch and some Greek dancing. An excellent excursion overall! Jkaczano 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jkaczano Posted May 11, 2023 Author Report Share Posted May 11, 2023 3 hours ago, Mturk said: I'm probably late with this but last September we did the "Best of Santorini" tour. It was a great experience as part of our excursion was visiting the Akrotiri archeological site and our guide was an actual archeologist who helped work on various aspects of the site. Very informative! Of course we visited the famous part where we took pictures, went to a winery that overlooked the sea with more spectacular views and then went to an authentic Greek restaurant for lunch and some Greek dancing. An excellent excursion overall! Best of tour was available for $300 per person. Since there’s 4 of us… MaryS 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mturk Posted May 11, 2023 Report Share Posted May 11, 2023 1 hour ago, Jkaczano said: Best of tour was available for $300 per person. Since there’s 4 of us… That's much more than we paid. Just looked over my confirmation email and i paid $524 CDN for my wife and I. If i convert that to USD it would approximate $200 per person so that's a 50% increase! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjb1127 Posted May 11, 2023 Report Share Posted May 11, 2023 In Santorini, on another line, I did Opa1 A Greek Celebration. It was a lot of fun Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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